Folk Festival will stay in Richmond

The National Folk Festival, which stays in its chosen city for 3 years, will move on after this fall’s festival. Venture Richmond, however, “is currently speaking with potential sponsors about continuing a large, community festival similar to The National.” Read the Richmond.com article for more info.

Venture Richmond hopes to have the same quality musicians and artists involved in the permanent festival.

They’ve hired the same organization that handles the national festival to continue doing the Richmond version, so it should be fairly seamless.

From their website:
Same high quality of musical performances, kids activities, food, and more! In fact we will hire the same company that produces the National Folk Festival (National Council for the Traditional Arts) to help us make sure the festival is exactly the same!